Issues of the Day

Forty-four years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra War, Nigeria finds herself on the brink of another civil war. Nigerians...

Putain de merde! I exclaim in absolute contempt as I hand over my passport to the French police officer. That’s...

Nigeria is a country richly endowed with abundant natural resources as well as quality human capital. Its population is the...

I never really liked Soldiers. They were always too clean. Their uniforms were always too immaculate. Their boots were often...

Perhaps Humanists should pause from time to time and ask themselves a simple, straightforward, even neighbourly question: what do religionists really...

Mahesh Sachdev, India's High Commissioner to Nigeria for five years, until October 2013, has written a book about Nigeria. It...

I’m entirely unsure why I was chosen to lead a conversation on Wole Soyinka (Kongi) as a public intellectual, convinced...

“Oriki Ni Ro Ni”, - one’s oriki is an amebo – is not the first title that suggested itself to...

“The Problem of the 20th Century is the Problem of the Color line.”   WEB Du Bois. The incidence of Ebola...

“Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and thought…”        Judges 16:20 Facts:...